Muslim al-Shishani

Muslim al-Shishani was an al-Nusra Front leader from Chechnya.

Biography
Muslim al-Shishani was born in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR of the Soviet Union to a family of Sunni Muslim Chechens, and he joined the al-Nusra Front branch of al-Qaeda during the Syrian Civil War. al-Shishani met with a popular Saudi Arabian cleric, Abdallah Muhammad al-Muhaysini during the 2014 offensive in Latakia Governorate, and he was pictured on social media.